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When we planned our trip to Colorado, one of the places I absolutely wanted to see was the great Sand Dunes national park. The existence of sand dunes in the middle of such a mountainous state really piques my curiosity. So we sacrificed a couple of nice fall photo ops and decided to do a detour to include the great Sand Dunes and Black canyon of the Gunnison National Parks. It still left us with about 8 hours of back and forth driving away from our original plan to get to this stunning location.

This was one of the first shots I took as we were nearing the park from the access road. I saw this amazing cloud formation above the dunes and the massive Sangre de Cristo Range that rises right behind the stunning dunes. Even though this little side excursion kind of wiped us out, I am so glad we did it and can’t wait to come back.

As I mentioned in my previous post, the first planned stop on my road trip home was Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado. My original...